Bug Reports (Path of Exile 1) - Hive Fortress crashes every time - Forum

As soon as I begin the first wave of the hive fortress, my client crashes every single time. This problem began today and has occurred in 3 straight hive fortresses. Let me know if I can provide any other relevant info. CPU: Intel 12900k GPU: Nvidia 3080 Ti Renderer: Vulkan Windows 11 Settings Windowed Fullscreen Resolution: 3440x1440 Render Resolution: NVIDIA DLAA Vsync: Off Foreground FPS Cap: 90 Triple Buffering: Enabled Texture Filtering: Trilinear Antialiasing: Disabled Lighting: Shadows Shadow Quality: Low Sun Shadow Quality: Low Number of Lights: Low Bloom: 25% Depth of Field: Disabled Water Detail Level: Low Texture Quality: High Dynamic Culling: Enabled Dynamic Resolution: Enabled Engine Multithreading: Enabled IGN: HueHueHue_HueHueHue Last bumped on Mar 10, 2026, 7:21:40 PM	Posted by tigbicket#4366 on Mar 10, 2026, 7:04:19 PM Quote this Post
Thanks for your report, we're looking into this. This crash is occurring due to Puncture, unequipping that skill gem should stop the crash for now.	Posted by Jatin_GGG on Mar 10, 2026, 7:15:29 PM Grinding Gear Games Quote this Post
I'll unequip puncture for now. Thank you so much! IGN: HueHueHue_HueHueHue	Posted by tigbicket#4366 on Mar 10, 2026, 7:21:40 PM Quote this Post